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Ways To Monitor Modem Activity |
You need to make a modemlog.txt.
1. Go to Control Panel
2. Modems
3. Highlight your Modem and click properties
4. Connection Tab
5. Advanced button
It should say "Advanced Connection Setting", there put a check in the
box that says "Record a log file".
OK your way out.
Reboot. Now you will be creating a "Modemlog.txt" that will appear
in windows until you uncheck the box.
To run Logview, open Explorer and go to \Other\Misc\Logview on the Win
95 CD.
Run it directly from the CD, or copy it to your desktop.
1. In Control Panel, double-click the Network icon.
2. Click Dial-Up Adapter, and then click Properties.
3. Click the Advanced tab.
4. In the Property box, click Record A Log File.
5. In the Value box, click Yes.
6. Click OK until you return to Control Panel. The next time you attempt
a PPP connection, the Ppplog.txt file is created. The file is located in
the Windows folder and can be edited using any text editor or word processor.
If the file already exists, new information is appended to it.
NOTE: If you do not use the Ppplog.txt file for troubleshooting problems
you should disable its creation, because the file can become quite large
after you make several connections.
Note: Making a Ppplog.txt is easy, Interpeting it is harder.
In Windows 98, your modem may seem to work fine, but the true fact is, the baud rate for you COM Port doesn't allow you to reach top-speed. To improve your port's speed:
1.Click Start, Select Settings > Control Panel, open System
2.Click the Device Manager tab, and click on the "+" sign next to Ports (COM & LPT)
3.Select the port your modem uses, click Properties, then click the Port Settings tab, and set the Bits per second to 115200 bps, that way you won't have a sort of filter on the Port. 115200 bps is the maximum setting for a "Standard" COM port. If you encounter problems, try setting this value lower. With System Monitor you can check if there are any problems. System Monitor (sysmon.exe) can be Installed by starting the Add/Remove Programs Properties in Control Panel, select the Windows Setup tab, double click on the System Tools entry and select System Monitor (If you are not sure which COM port your modem uses, click on the "+" sign next to the Modem Icon in Control Panel and select your Modem. Click on Properties and choose the Modem Tab. Here you will see the COM port used by your modem)
4.For most Modems you can use Hardware in the Flow control drop-down box
The Maximum speed at wich Windows 98 communicates with the modem is set in Control Panel > Modems, click the Properties button on the General tab. Windows 98 selects a conservative default speed, to prevent data loss on slower computers. So if you are using a fast computer (defined by MS as a 80486 or Pentium), set a faster speed here. If applications report data errors, lower your speed.
In Windows 98 Microsoft opted for some limited support of the setting known as MaxMTU in Windows 95.
1.Select your Dial-Up Adapter from Network in Control Panel
2.Click Properties and select the Advanced tab
3.In the selection box on the left, select IP Packet Size
4.Now you can select a setting in the Value drop-down box, choices are: Automatic, Large, Medium and Small
5.The settings Large, Medium and Small will put a IPMTU value in the registry entry for your Dial-Up Adapter of respectively 1500, 1000 or 576
I recomend getting TweakDun utility to get the maximum out of your MTU.
http://www.infinisource.com/maxmtu.htm
It is not widely known, but the serial ports on motherboards and add-in
cards that use the some I/O controllers will support operation
at greater than 115200 bps.
ALI:
M1543(Aladdin IV+,V south bridge)
Serial ports provided by these chips will run at 230400 and 460800
bps.
NS:
PC87308,PC87307/87317,PC97307/97317,PC87309
Serial ports provided by these chips will run at 230400/460800/921600
bps.
SMC:
37C665IR/666IR/669/669FR/67x/68x/93x/93xAPM/93xFR/957FR/M60x /61x/70x,37B77x/78x,37N958FR/769
Serial ports provided by these chips will run at 230400 and 460800
bps.
Winbond:
W83877TF(TF only, A/F/AF not supported) W83977F/AF/TF/ATF
Serial ports provided by these chips will run at 230400/460800/921600
bps.
All they need is the proper software to enable and program these high
speed modes.
See http://www.infinisource.com/maxmtu.htm
For more information.
Open the Registry Editor--select Start, Run, type
regedit
and click OK. Select Edit, Find, then type
MaxMTU
and click Find Next. When the finder stops, double-click MaxMTU (in the right pane), type
576
on the Value data line, then click OK. Close the Registry Editor, reboot, and try connecting to the Internet. It should be a lot faster!
Note: If the Registry Editor can't find MaxMTU, you can try a Freeware utility that will change the setting for you. For example, try PPP-Boost, available for download from Use this utility to make changes to specific Registry settings that affect your Internet transfer speeds. PPP Boost changes the Windows 95 defaults from LAN settings to settings more typical of an online TCP/IP setup.
DOWNLOAD ppp_setup.exe 355 KB
PPP-Boost (Win95 only)
NOTE : This tweak is not required for Windows 98
http://www.demonweb.co.uk/c3sys/ppp.htm
Open My Computer>> Dialup Networking>> Right click on YourISP.net>>
Properties>>Click Configure Tab>>Click Advanced tab.
You'll see a box for extra settings.
AT&F
F=Force to recognize the modem
Q. I Dial into NetSpeed and connect OK, everything goes well, but after about ten minutes I get disconnected. Why?
A. This is a common problem that is easy to fix. Whenever you are using your modem, you should disconnect any telephones that may be using the same phone line. Most modern telephones have a memory for one touch dialling or last number redial. These features are stored in the telephones memory. Every ten minutes or so, the phone will re-charge its batteries by drawing current from the telephone line. Whenever this happens, the modem will receive extremely garbled signals down that phone line and will usually disconnect the line. To stop this happening, simply un-plug the phone from the socket but remember to plug it back in when your finished!
Q. I have a 14.4 fax modem. When I go into modem setup there is not a 14.4 speed selection. Why?
A. 14.4 modems use what is known as a split baud rate. This means that there are actually two baud rates. The first, known as the DTE speed, this is the speed at which the program sends information to the COM port. The second, known as the DCE speed, is the speed at which the two modems communicate with each other. Windows 95, like many Windows 3.1 COMM application, is allowing you to select the DTE speed and not the DCE speed.
Q. Are there any diagnostic tools to aid in a failed dial-up connection?
A. Yes, there are several tools. You have the PPPLOG.TXT which will help you troubleshoot a failed PPP connection. There is a MODEMLOG.TXT that will let you see what AT commands were sent to the modem and what responses it gave back. There is a MODEMDET.LOG that will show you the results from the modem detection process and there is the Diagnostics tab in Control Panel Modems.
Q. I have installed TCP/IP, and the Dial-Up adaptor in Control Panel and made sure everything is bound together. But, I still have no access to Dial-Up Networking. The help file says there should be an icon in 'My Computer' but there is nothing. Any ideas?
A. Go to Control Panel/Add-Remove Programs/Window Setup. Click on Communications, then on Details. You should have a check mark before "Dial-Up Networking". Click "OK". Now "Dial-Up Networking" will appear in the folder "My Computer".
Q. Previously I had to modify my SYSTEM.INI still to adjust my COM settings. Will I have to do this with Windows 95?
A. No, nearly all of the COM adjustments you use to have to make in SYSTEM.INI under Windows 3.1 can be made through the Windows 95 user interface.
Q. In the Connected dialogue box it shows the speed you are connected at. For example 144000 bits per second. Is that computer to computer speed or computer to modem speed.
A. It depends on what AT command has been sent to the modem in the modem initialisation string. For example, on some modems you can send an ATW1 and it will report to Windows 95 the computer to modem speed, or you can pass an ATW2 and it will report computer to computer speed.
Q. Does Windows 95 dial-up Networking provide any type of redial function? A. Yes, it is disabled by default but you can enable it by selecting Connections from within the Dial-up Networking window then choose settings.
Q. If I have a connection to the Internet would it be possible for someone on the Internet to see y shared resources?
A. Yes it is possible but it requires some setup. First the person trying
to connect to you would have to know your IP address and your computer
name. They would the have to enter this information into a LMHOSTS file.
After they do this they can connect to your shared resources. You can protect
yourself by either putting passwords on your shares or by using User Level
Security.